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HIRSCHL & ADLER GALLERIES MOVING TO EXPANDED QUARTERS, FALL 2010
New York (July 30, 2010): Hirschl & Adler Galleries and Hirschl & Adler Modern will open their new and expanded galleries at 730 Fifth Avenue, New York, in the late fall. The announcement has been made by Stuart P. Feld and his daughter Elizabeth Feld.
“After 33 wonderful years in a historic townhouse located at 21 East 70th Street, in the same block as The Frick Collection,” Mr. Feld said, “Hirschl & Adler Galleries will move to larger quarters in the landmark Crown Building.” Having operated on seven floors of a townhouse during their 33 years on East 70th Street, Hirschl & Adler will now be housed on a single floor that will provide the gallery with about 25 percent additional space. Mr. Feld elaborates, “I am excited about the more efficient operation that lies ahead, with the public galleries, private showrooms, offices, library, and business office all housed within an arm’s reach of one another. This will replace the beautiful, if less efficient, domestic quarters that the firm will leave behind.”
Elizabeth Feld, who has devoted much of her time to the field of 19th-century American Decorative Arts, in which the firm has dealt since 1984, welcomes the opportunities presented by a custom-designed space. Specifically, the new layout incorporates a suite of rooms that will be exclusively devoted to the gallery’s unparalleled collection of American furniture, silver, lighting, glass, and ceramics, which will be displayed together with the gallery’s holdings in American and European fine arts of the period. “I have long felt that providing a viewing experience that offers variety—that is, seeing works in both a museum-like setting and a more multi-media “domestic” installation, paralleling the kind of environment that could be recreated in someone’s home—is the most meaningful for our clients. Our new space will allow us to mount exhibitions in both formats simultaneously.”
Hirschl & Adler Galleries is renowned for its important collections of American and European paintings, watercolors, drawings, and sculpture, including masterpieces by John Singleton Copley, Gilbert Stuart, George Caleb Bingham, Hiram Powers, Thomas Eakins, Childe Hassam, Theodore Robinson; and European masterworks by William Adolphe Bouguereau, Edgar Degas, Alfred Sisley, and Claude Monet. The new galleries at the Crown Building will showcase works of this magnitude in a program of special exhibitions and through private viewing appointments.
The gallery’s new quarters will also be home to Hirschl & Adler Modern, where a succession of monographic and group shows by twenty of the leading American representational artists of our time will be presented alongside the finest secondary market works from 1913 to the present. Its contemporary program finds a neat context within its inventory of American Modernism, which includes works by, among others, Georgia O’Keeffe, Charles Sheeler, Gaston Lachaise, and Charles Demuth. Hirschl & Adler Modern has also represented the Estate of Fairfield Porter since the artist’s death in 1975.
Stuart Feld recalls that when the gallery moved to 21 East 70th Street in 1977, it was at the center of a whole group of major galleries dealing in American and European art of the last 200 years. “That has all changed,” observes Elizabeth, “with many of these firms having closed, moved, downsized, or just changed the way they operate.” Again much of the art business has shifted to an earlier outpost of the New York art world, in the corridor of 57th Street from Fifth to Madison Avenues. “We are ecstatic to be joining an amazing group of galleries at this internationally renowned crossroads.”
For further information, or to speak to Elizabeth Feld, please call 212 535-8810 or email ElizabethF@HirschlAndAdler.com.
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